Meeting Details

Licensing Committee
21 Oct 2019 - 18:30 to 19:40
  • Documents
  • Attendance
  • Visitors
  • Declarations of Interests

Documents

Agenda

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Members are invited to a Meeting of the Licensing Committee

to be held in the Conference Room, Riverside, Lowestoft

on Monday 21 October 2019 at 6:30 pm

Part One - Open To The Public
1 Apologies for Absence and Substitutions
1
Apologies for Absence were received from Councillor Bond , Councillor F  Mortimer and Councillor Wiles. There were no Substitutions. 
2 Declarations of Interest

Members and Officers are invited to make any declarations of Disclosable Pecuniary or Local Non-Pecuniary Interests that they may have in relation to items on the Agenda and are also reminded to make any declarations at any stage during the Meeting if it becomes apparent that this may be required when a particular item or issue is considered.

2
There were no Declarations of Interest. 
3 Past and Shadow Minutes
The Monitoring Officer has recommended that the Minutes of the past and Shadow Authorities be received as good governance and for the avoidance of Minutes remaining unconfirmed.
3

RESOLVED 

 

That the Minutes of the following Meetings of past and Shadow Authorities be confirmed as correct records - 

 

(a) Suffolk Coastal District Council's Licensing and Health Committee meeting held on 9 October 2018; 

(b) Waveney District Council's Licensing Committee meeting held on 6 February 2019; and

(c) East Suffolk Council's Licensing Committee meeting held on 15 July 2019. 

 

The Chairman asked all members of the Committee to respond promptly to the Democratic Services Officer's requests for availability to sit on Sub-Committees, including if members were not available on the proposed date. He stressed that this would help to ensure Sub-Committee meetings were convened promptly. 

Training to be provided by Officers of the Licensing and Legal teams of the Council 
4
The Licensing Committee received specific and comprehensive training on all aspects of taxi licensing regulations and requirements from the Legal and Licensing Services Manager, the Litigation Lead, the Senior Licensing Officer and two Licensing Officers. 
Part Two - Confidential

Declarations of Interests

Member NameItem Ref.DetailsNature of DeclarationAction
No declarations of interest have been entered for this meeting.

Visitors

Officers present:
Katherine Abbott (Democratic Services Officer), Teresa Bailey (Senior Licensing Officer), Chris Bing (Legal and Licensing Services Manager), Leonie Hoult (Licensing Officer), Alison Woodley (Licensing Officer), Kerryn Woollett (Litigation Lead).